Device for facilitating the rebuilding of fires.



No. 727,181.: PATENTED MAY-5, 1903. E. E, MosEE. DEVICE EQEEAGIEITATING'TEE EEBUILDING QEEIEES.v

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UNITEDy STATES PATENT Patented May 5, 1903.

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ELISE E. MOSER, OF WATERTOW, WISCONSIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,181, dated May 5, 1903. Application filed July 29,1902. Serial No.117l553. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Emsa E. MOSER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Device for Facilitating the Rebuilding of Fires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved device Y for facilitating the rebuilding of fires; and the object thereof is to provide a portable contrivance by which the fire may be remade without the necessity of vremoving all of the unburned coals and ashes from the stove.

With the above object in view my invention comprises a plate of such shape and design that it may be readily inserted into the stove and easily pushed down through the coal and ashes to divide the fire-box into two compartments, from one of which the coal and the ashes are removed, as will be clearly set forth hereinafter. The said plate has a series of holes arranged therein and also a bail-handle, by which it maybe easily and conveniently handled.

The invention also consists of certain details of construction and novelties, ofV combination, as will be fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the drawings, in which- Figure lis a perspective view of my improvement as applied to al magazine or selffeeding stove. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, the line of the sectionbeing drawn directly below the magazine of the stove.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of my improvement, and Fig. Ltis a detail-view'illustrating a slightly-modified construction.

In the drawings I yhave shown my device as applied to an ordinary magazine-stove, for

vwhich it is especially designed; but I do not wish it understood that it is only vapplicable to such style of stove, as it may with vequal effectiveness be used upon any and all kinds of stoves or furnaces.

By reference tothe drawings it will be seen that I employ a plate A, whichis bent sub-v stantially upon a compoundcurved line through its entire length, with the sides A A extended forwardly, as clearly shown, so that when the plate is placed within the stove upon the upper edge of the plate is secured' a bail-shaped handle B, by which the plate 'maybe easily and conveniently handled. In practice I permanently connect the handle to 'the plate; but, if desired, it may be made deltachabl'e, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, .sothat'it may be disconnected prior to starting the fire, and thus kept cool, so that it may be more easily handled.

The manner of using my improvement is as follows: If for any reason a fire should be -allowed togo ou-t and it is again found necessary to rebuild it, the plate is inserted into the stove through the door and pushed down through the coals in such position that the edges of the plate will rest against the rebrick. The coals and ashes between the plate and fre-brick are then removed, leaving a space in which a fresh re is started, the holes readily permitting sufficient draft and also allowing the heat and fire to escape through the coals that were'left inthe stove, and after a good fire hasbeenbuilt up the plate is withdrawn and the live coals contacting with the unburned ones will readily ignite them, thus `providingaflrefand the necessity of removingthe entire contents of the stove is avoided and the dust and labor caused thereby likewise avoided. 1

My invention will be found particularly advantageous for use in magazine or self-feeding stoves, and the plate forming, asit does, a partition in the fire-box will hold and prevent the coals within the magazine from falling.

It will be observed that by shaping the plate as described it will encircle the magazine for a slight distance, and the edges extending for somelittle distance past the magazine and upon either side thereof and curved outwardly, as described, a larger space is proltwill be readily seen that I provide a very simple and efficient device that will be found -most useful in restarting a fire.

Having thus fully described my invention,

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what I claim as new, and desire to secure by to the upper edge of the plate and upon einher Letters Patent, is- Side thereof, substantially as shown and d- A deviceof the kind deseribed,comprising scribed. a plate having a series of perforations ar- ELISE E. MOSER. 5 ranged therein, the body ofthe plate being ar- Witnesses:

ranged upon a compound-curved line through- EMIL CREUZ,

ont its entire length, and a handle connected l WM. HALFPAP. 

